Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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I would understand that my life. an impereeptible breath in this great whole, Is an indispensable treasure in the Father's plan. Then, falling on my knees, I would admire, Lord. the mystery of this world Which, in spite of the innumerable and hateful snags of sin, ls a long throb of love towards Love eternal. I would like to rise very high, Lord, Above my eity, Above the world. Above time. I would like to purify my glance and borrow your eyes. Ascencio I turn my head to dream of other worlds Far away, yetjust beyond my mind. Yet corners in the ball are screaming down my throat, Telling me I must return To see and not to know Naked children starving in the desert: Crumbling down, spinning round, torn between. now and later on. Who am I to say I must not go? When am I to leave behind all that we ean know. To add any thoughts to others who have caught a glimpse Of why we see and who we are and what we all must he? When I see the end of me what will I see then Of hopes and hearts and dreams of people Who never can be again? Miehael Sn iith twentyerlirvc

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IWCIZIVV-IWO Open Reading: I WOULD LIKE TO RISE VERY HIGH I would like to rise very high, Lord: Above my city, Above the world, Above time. I would like to purify my glance and borrow your eyes. I would then see the universe,humanity, history, asthe Father sees them. I would see in the prodigious transformation ofmatter, In the perpetual seething of life, Your great Body that is born of the breath of the Spirit. I would see the beautiful, the eternal thought of your Father's Love taking form, step by step: Everything summed up in you, things on earth and things in heaven. And I would see that today, like yesterday, the most minute details are part of it. Every man in his place. Every group And every object. I would see a factory, a theatre, a collective-bargaining session and the construction of a fountain. I would see a crowd of youngsters going to a dance, A baby being born, and an old man dying. I would see the tiniest particle of matter and the smallest throbbing of life. Love and hate. Sin and grace. Startled. I would understand that the great adventure oflove, which started at the beginning of the world, is unfolding before me, The divine story which, according to your promise, will be completed only in glory after the resurrection of the flesh. When you will come before the Father. sayingz All is accomplished, I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I would understand that everything is linked together, That all is but a single movement of the whole ofhumanity and of the whole universe toward the Trinity, in you, by you, Lord. I would understand that nothing is secular, neither things. nor people, nor events, But that, on the contrary, everything has been made sacred in its origin hy God And that everything must be consecrated by man, who has himself been made divine.

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Day by day the earth revolves, Beneath the great unblinking eye. Its path a maze to solve. Man solved it once and by and by He left his planet, where it lay An unsolved twisted maze, Poisoned by his unfinished stay. LU?-Cycle He was born He lived in the slums He went to school He learned to hate To hate himself, to hate his friends His son was born His son lived in the glass mansion He went to no school He learned to love To love his friends, to love himself To love his neighbours His father killed him because he loved His father died because he knew no love. Yet he always returns from the trails he blazes Back to the unseen dying womb. twenty-four The sun rose casting forth its light, Dispelling the shadows of the nightg For awhile love for all was right, But again the sun sank out of sight. Love was replaced by distrust and hate, Uncertainty became man's awful fate. The shadows of the night conquer the great And when the sun rises it may be too late.